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Reviewing these top 20 common—and avoidable—embroidery mistakes, and you’ll know what to avoid before starting your next embroidery project. Not Reading the Instructions Always read the instructions. Using the wrong thread or number of strands of embroidery floss is one of the most common errors that happens when you skip reading the instructions. With kits, this can lead to running out of thread before completing the project. It also may result in a different line thickness than intended....

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Second Place: $75,000 scholarship, Yi Sun, 17, of San Jose, California, for a project in mathematics that involves the winding number of a function, which, in the case of the plane, is the number of times it encircles the origin. Third Place: $50,000 scholarship, Yuan Zhang, 17, of Derwood, Maryland for a project in medicine and health. She studied the molecular mechanisms behind atherosclerosis, or arterial plaque buildup, a disease in which lipid-laden macrophages - fat-filled white blood cells - build up in the vessel wall....

The obverse features the traditional portrait of George Washington facing left as sculpted by John Flanagan. This portrait has been used on the quarter since 1932. Around the top crescent of the coin is the inscription UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and on the bottom crescent is QUARTER DOLLAR. To the left of Washington’s portrait is the motto LIBERTY and on the right is IN GOD WE TRUST. The reverse of this circulating commemorative quarter-dollar depicts Frederick Douglass seated at his writing desk in front of Cedar Hill, his home in Washington, D....

You can use these Valentine’s Day stencils to decorate your greeting cards, handmade decorations, cakes and cookies, and anything else your heart desires. You can print these free stencils out on cardstock and then cut them out by hand before you use them. If you really want to get great results, try using template plastic or a thicker material for the stencil. This will make sure that the stencil lays flat and can be used again....

You can also make decorations together ahead of time, and then take them along to brighten your host’s table, if you are attending dinner as a guest. This thoughtful gesture reinforces the meaning of gratitude during the Thanksgiving holiday.

If you need an envelope for your card, here is a list of free envelope templates so you can find just the right size you need for your card to fit into. You can find more free, printable cards for just about every occasion such as anniversaries, thank you’s, and more. Irish Blessings from Live Laugh Rowe Lucky Coin Printable from The Crafting Chicks Golden Typography from Greetings Island There are also some St....

Legend has it that King George II, seeking shelter from a storm, arrived at a peasant cottage and was given a multi-spindled chair to sit on. Its comfort and simplicity impressed him so much he had his own furniture-maker copy it. From this simple encounter, the Windsor vogue was born, according to the Treasury of American Design and Antiques by Clarence P. Hornung. By the 1730s, the chair had crossed the ocean and began appearing in Britain’s American colonies....

Chess is the story of a love triangle between two grandmasters–one American, one Russian–and a woman serves as a manager to one of the players but falls in love with the other. The show wasn’t exactly a hit the one time it got to Broadway. It only lasted two weeks in a 1988 stint, but it has long remained popular with fans of musicals around the world. Many different versions of the show have been put on over the years, featuring modified plots, different selections of music, and various casts....

Making Adjustments Sewing machine tension is adjusted when the bobbin and upper thread is not even on both sides of the fabric. When sewing two layers of fabric the intersection of the bobbin and upper thread should be between the two layers of fabric. “Righty Tighty, Lefty Lucy” refers to turning the adjustment to the right to tighten the upper thread tension and turning the adjustment to the left to make the upper thread tension looser....

Such an arrangement is often required when you want to display a “message box” DIV. Message boxes on webpages are traditionally shown in the middle of the screen to get the maximum attention from the visitor. Let’s learn how to align a DIV in the middle of your browser screen. Let’s begin with simpler thing: This is the most straightforward. All you need to do is to set left and right margins as auto....

All sewing machine needles have the same basic parts. The variation in needles is determined by the shape of the parts and the length of the parts. Shank The upper thick part of a sewing machine needle is called the shank. This part of the needle is inserted into the machine. Home sewing machine needles are composed of a flat side and a round side to assist in positioning the needle correctly....

To initiate the Incognito Mode, first you need to launch Chrome and then press Ctrl+Shift+N (for Windows and Linux) or Command+Shift+N (for Mac OS) key combination. A new Incognito Chrome window opens up as a result. But if you often use Chrome in Incognito Mode, you can easily avoid pressing these keys to launch Chrome in Incognito Mode. For this you can create a shortcut on your desktop. When you will click on this shortcut, Chrome will open directly in the Incognito Mode....